Thich Nhat Hanh writes with the voice of the Buddha.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

He, who don’t know the Almighty God don’t know what He knows for what he knows, knows the Almighty God as the Supreme God!

Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge.

I’m awake and I can’t sleep. The more I’m awake, the more I see, and the harder to sleep.

As age changes with each moment, we become that little bit more of a distant memory to the person we are currently.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

I think Donald Trump is a bigot and a misogynist.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.